using Shepherd outside of GuixSD ?

2018-10-16 Thread Benjamin Slade
Does anyone have any experience using Shepherd as the init for a distro other than GuixSD ? This could be useful, say on a bare bones foreign distro where Guix was installed, in order to have more of the Guix ecosystem available even outside of GuixSD itself. Concretely speaking, I was thinking of

Re: Run graphical application in container

2018-10-16 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Yes, that was it, thanks a lot! Is anyone interested in finishing the work that was sketched in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-01/msg00056.html ? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic - Installing Guix in an LXC

2018-10-16 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
There is still an issue with the locale that is C.UTF-8. To fix it, you can add: lxc.environment = LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 To the file /var/lib/lxc/schemer/config Le mar. 16 oct. 2018 à 12:57, Amirouche Boubekki < amirouche.boube...@gmail.com> a écrit : > To install guix (the package manager) insid

Re: Run graphical application in container

2018-10-16 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 04:22:43PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > I think this was mentioned before on the mailing list but I cannot find > it back. I think the first discussion was here, regarding IceCat: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg00120.html And a more recent di

Run graphical application in container

2018-10-16 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi, I think this was mentioned before on the mailing list but I cannot find it back. The following won't work: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix environment -C -N --ad-hoc epiphany -- epiphany Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Fai

Re: Guix, Rofi, i3wm and Locales

2018-10-16 Thread Pierre-Henry F.
Cordialement, Pierre-Henry FRÖHRING +33 6 34 48 17 57 cont...@phfrohring.com Skype: pierre.henry.frohring ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 1:47 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > "Pierre-Henry F." cont...@phfrohring.com skribis: > > > I checked that I executed the commands: >

Re: Guix, Rofi, i3wm and Locales

2018-10-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "Pierre-Henry F." skribis: > I checked that I executed the commands: > > $ guix package -i glibc-locales > $ export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale > > Then: > > $ sudo apt remove rofi > $ guix package -i rofi > > But no... same result. Concretely, if you explicitly run

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic - Installing Guix in an LXC

2018-10-16 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
To install guix (the package manager) inside an ubuntu LXC on Ubuntu you can do the following: $ sudo apt install lxc $ sudo lxc-create -t download -n schemer -- --dist ubuntu --release bionic --arch amd64 That will create a lightweight virtulal machine with ubuntu bionic as a distribution. To c

WebRTC support (jitsi) in Guix-packaged browsers?

2018-10-16 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi Guix! Last August I could run WebRTC services such as https://meet.jit.si just fine. For the last few weeks I've been unable to run it. Maybe last Icecat upgrade? It does not work on Epiphany either. Is anyone able to run it? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Descri